30-10-2020, 04:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 30-10-2020, 06:46 PM by George Neave.)
Fascinating article about Walter Tevis - author of Queen's Gambit - which is currently airing on Netflix - a surprisingly authentic account of chess life although I must say I have not come across anyone resembling this series heroine at any of the congresses I have attended 
. I see he also wrote the Hustler and Man Who Fell to Earth and was a chess nut. I quote: "I think that most people take up the game of chess in a very serious way if they have personality problems ... I was afraid of girls, I was afraid of a lot of things, and chess was a way of … getting rid of some of that anxiety by displacing it in something that was relatively safe,”
Enjoy the article and don't miss this on Netflix
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...ter-tevis/
. I see he also wrote the Hustler and Man Who Fell to Earth and was a chess nut. I quote: "I think that most people take up the game of chess in a very serious way if they have personality problems ... I was afraid of girls, I was afraid of a lot of things, and chess was a way of … getting rid of some of that anxiety by displacing it in something that was relatively safe,”Enjoy the article and don't miss this on Netflix
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...ter-tevis/